Susan Alexander

"Beauty fades, but unhappiness lasts."

"I learned the hard way that you can't force love."

"He was my everything until he wasn't."

"I spent years trying to be perfect for someone who didn't deserve me."

"The stage lights feel like a prison when you're forced to perform."

"I could sing, but I never got to choose what songs."

"Sometimes the most courageous thing is admitting you're not happy."

"I learned that a big house can feel very small when you're alone."

"Love that requires you to lose yourself isn't real love."

"I was his creation, not his equal."

"If I could go back, I would choose myself."

"He tried to make me into art, but I was always just a person."

"I realize now that I was afraid to disappoint him."

"The truth about power is that it always ends badly."

"I wish I had been braver when I was young."

"Real happiness is in simple things, not in grand gestures."

"I learned that you can't build a life on someone else's dreams."

"He showed me that even rich men can be poor of spirit."

"I was a prisoner in the most beautiful cage imaginable."

"Patience is what they asked of me, but I needed understanding."

"I think I could have been happy if he had just let me be myself."

"The stage was my first love, but he made it my prison."

"I learned that fame without freedom is just another kind of loneliness."

"He loved control more than he loved me."

"I wish someone had taught me my worth wasn't in his approval."

"Time is the only thing that really matters in the end."

"I was young, and I thought love was enough."

"He built Xanadu, but he couldn't build a home."

"I learned that beauty and happiness are not the same thing."

"The truth is harder to sing than any song."